11 Before 12 by Lisa Greenwald

Author:Lisa Greenwald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

A FEW DAYS LATER AT lunch, I try to get the Whatevers to help me come up with an act for the talent show. They don’t seem interested. At all.

June says, “Kaylan, I told you a hundred times you should play the flute. You’re good at the flute.”

I’m not sure why she doesn’t realize that would be really lame and boring, and why she doesn’t realize that I’m not good at the flute. She’s never even heard me play.

And then Cami says, “What about some kind of dramatic reading of celebrity tweets?”

Her mom is a high-powered agent or lawyer or something, so Cami sometimes acts like she’s twenty-five and she knows about all sorts of stuff that doesn’t make any sense to me.

“I’m not on Twitter. I don’t know how it even works,” I say, and then I start to realize that I may be shooting down everyone’s ideas. “But thanks for all the suggestions.”

“So join it,” she says. “I’ll show you during study hall. But honestly, you don’t need to be on Twitter to read tweets.”

I really don’t even know what she’s talking about, so I tell her I will give it some thought and I go back to finishing my lunch.

“You’re never going to believe this convo I had with my mom last night,” I overhear Ari say from the end of the table.

Saara starts asking me about the English essay, but I try to avoid conversation so I can eavesdrop.

“What happened?” Sydney asks.

“Oh yeah, you texted me about that,” Marie adds. “How did it go?”

My throat stings, so I take a sip of water and keep listening.

Ari raises her eyebrows and says, “She was like, I want to be close with you, and I want us to make a time each week that we spend together, just the two of us.”

“And?” Sydney asks.

“And I was like, okay . . . but it seems weird, right?”

“I dunno,” Kira says. “It’s kinda nice. My mom works all the time.”

They’re quiet after that, but I get the sense there was more to that conversation than what Ari’s saying. How her mom probably made her biscuits for breakfast this morning with fresh raspberry jam from the farmer’s market to make her feel better.

I bet she fulfilled the mature discussion with our moms about their flaws thing.

I feel the strongest urge to run over to her and tell her that we need to do the JHH right now. But maybe she did it on her own, in the mirror.

Even if we’re not talking, we’re doing the same things at the same time. We’re on the same wavelength, like BFFs should be.

I’m by the garbage, throwing away my lunch bag, when I see Ari walk right by me. She’s with Marie and Kira.

They look at me, and I half smile, about to bring up the mom talks and the JHH, but then they look away.

Thankfully Jason comes up to throw away his trash and I relax a little. I take a deep breath and force myself to put the Ari drama away for a minute.

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